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Objectively, life has been difficult lately. We have joked that moving cursed us, but sometimes I feel there is actually something to that. If our lives looked too good to be true back in the summer (beach trip! UK trip! new house!), don’t worry; the universe has come back for us. Since we have moved … more

I’m reading a really fantastic book right now called Sabbath in the Suburbs. I’m sure I’ll tell you more about it later, but for now suffice it to say that it is changing the way I am thinking about weekends. Our weekends have felt kind of stressful in the past couple of months, which doesn’t … more

So it is officially fall (although really to me fall starts after Labor Day), but I’m still having a hard time wrapping my head around it. Usually I am ready to dive in to fall and the pleasant weather and the warm meals and pumpkins. But halfway through September part of my brain still thought … more

If there is one thing about my schedule that I am protective about right now, it is my time from 8:00 until bedtime. I have always been known as a terrible person when it comes to “going with the flow” but goodness having Evelyn has changed that. Now all I want in the world is … more

I’ve been thinking a lot about rest/sabbath/time for myself recently. It seems to be a recurring theme, and I’m not sure if it is because I’m hyper-aware of it or if it’s because I actually am stumbling across other people’s thoughts about self-care and rest more. In Shauna Neiquist’s new devotional book Savor, she talks … more